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givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

Like every other post OP makes, yes, it’s obviously to get people to play their game.

I searched the channel expecting it to be the only video and also OP:

www.youtube.com/

But instead they just faked the acreenshot, it’s not even a real video

givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

OP faked the screenshot

www.youtube.com/

The last video was from 7 years ago, but the 87 subscribers is legit for some reason

givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40

givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

Yeah. I think someone used the term “historic” appropriately, that it’s old

And people are assuming it was used as an exaggeration like “this is a big deal”.

givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

As of a year ago, GTA 5 had made over $9,000,000,000.

That’s a billion with a B.

Mostly off micro transactions to children.

They don’t need to charge $90, but if people will pay it, they’ll charge it.

givesomefucks, 2 miesiące temu

Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.

You can just not buy it and never mention why.

And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:

newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colle…

givesomefucks, 2 miesiące temu

HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.

After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.

So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.

Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.

As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.

Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else

The worst part …

They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.

Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems in primaries or generals. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.

So I want to be clear:

The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

Lately I’ve used it with is Baldur’s Gate 3

Yeah, turn based CRPGs is the only time I turn that stuff on.

But there seems to be two types of frame generation:

1. A real frame is generated, then it guesses, then real frame is generated.
2. Two real frames are generated, then they “fill in the gaps” with fake frames.

For 1 it doesn’t create lag, but it may guess wrong then have to correct on the next real frame.

For 2 the fake frames are going to be correct, but a lot of latency is added.

Neither is an issue for CRPG, but can be a huge issue in shooters, fighting games, and PvE like Dark Souls.

The problem is manufactures are now counting all the fake frames in their stats while ignoring every issue that pops up from that.

givesomefucks, 6 miesięcy temu

It’s a good point tho, DC is compact and designed that way with a solid lore reason.

NA should be more spread out lore wise, and it is.

The big mistake was having the navigation pathing direct you to fast travel station to move about the same map. So if you tried to walk places in NA, it was likely to make you walk to the closest fast travel point, even if it’s in the opposite direction. Which prevents players from learning the map and getting lost when they realize what’s happening and don’t want the loading screen for fast travel.

Like, I agree with the guy, but it’s not a design problem, it’s a pathing problem.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s risk assessment.

If you have a startup and someone offers you 9 figures so they’re the CEO and you still run the day to day…

You’d be an idiot to risk it, because any number of billion dollar companies can fuck you over thru innumerable ways.

So every once and a while someone with shit tier risk assessment lucks out and suddenly becomes unimaginable rich. And those are the people making offers on the next generation of startups.

The system is set up so the worst people possible run shit. Because no sane person would keep “letting it ride” to the point they make billions, and a crazy person who does becomes too big to fail. And once they get to that point, they’ve convinced themselves no one else is smart enough to play Russian roulette 100 times in a row.

At that point they’ve conned themselves into really believing they’re geniuses who know more than anyone.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

So play something else?

They do it because people like you will keep paying from Day 1.

If it’s 120/year and 50/expansion…

How much money have you given them?

When are you going to do what actually matters and stop instead of complaining while giving them thousands of dollars?

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

And the very top comment was removed for pointing out that account was very bot like with it’s posting…

And in the meantime OP created their account and makes the same kind of posts…

givesomefucks, 8 miesięcy temu

The only thing that makes sense in my head as to why Until Dawn is underperforming is the game’s lack of promotion. Aside from a couple of trailers, I have barely seen Sony promote this remaster.

Couldn’t possibly be that people don’t want to keep paying new game prices for remasters…

People live rebuying decade old console exclusives on the next console generation.

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.

This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source

guru3d.com/…/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion…

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.

So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.

Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?

But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.

It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue

It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.

Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.

What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.

I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.

Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up

Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today

It won’t last forever

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…

It’s always corporations

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it

givesomefucks, 9 miesięcy temu

I mean, triple A just meant a big studio made it.

So I’m assuming quadruple A is going to be a game from a large study thats recently been bought by a giant corporation and fucked with everything despite not knowing video games.

So yeah, that’s pretty much what AAAA means, although some end up decent

givesomefucks, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s the same use everyone else has “found”…

Getting people to give you money for it

But why not just sell pre-orders like a Kickstarter game?

givesomefucks, rok temu

I’m so glad they haven’t sold out to a large American corporation yet.

It’s gotta be hard to turn down all that money, but large American corporations would want to buy it just to squash the competition

givesomefucks, rok temu

Tencent wants market share, not money.

The money comes later, like how Uber used to be a good service.

givesomefucks, rok temu

It was the last “hard” puzzle before everyone was able to just Google it if they got stuck

It didn’t stick out as hard to me, but when I went to school everyone was bitching about it. I ended up having people bring me their games so I could beat Water Temple for them so they could keep playing.

givesomefucks, rok temu

So it’s a free “game” where you type a word that pops up?

Wonder what the grift is.

givesomefucks, rok temu

I mean, there aren’t many free games that are actually free…

givesomefucks, rok temu

The abundance of back-to-back solar events has led scientists to think the sun may have entered its explosive era of peak activity, known as solar maximum — which seems to be starting a year earlier than previous forecasts predicted. However, researchers will have to wait until the sun “calms down” to know for sure.

What we do know is that X-class flares are most common during solar maximum, which is part of the sun’s 11-year solar cycle. So far in 2024, seven X-class flares, including the latest one, have burst from the sun, which is already half the number that reached Earth in 2023, Live Science previously reported.

On a long enough timescale, we’re gonna be hit by a big one.

I remember like a decade ago they were saying it hits a developed area, it’ll blow out all the transformers, and on that scale no country could replace them all for a very long time.

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I’ll just never get over how “we” (science I guess) know that stuff like this isn’t a question of if, but when.

And we just don’t seem to get ready for it.

Like, Y2K we saw coming and everyone handled it in time. But if there’s no firm date on something, everyone with the power to do anything just ignores it.

As a society it just feels like we’re living paycheck to paycheck. Can’t worry about next year cuz rents due in two weeks shit.

It’s just not a good way to go about things.

givesomefucks, rok temu

…

Yes, we get hit by them all the time…

What everyone else is talking about is a big one.

givesomefucks, rok temu

From the article you didn’t read:

I should make it absolutely clear, this is a joke

From OPs summary you didn’t read:

Pocketpair reveals a Palworld dating sim as part of an April Fool’s Day joke

But hey, if you’re not sure, you’re better off asking.

givesomefucks, rok temu

I mean, all that was intentional…

But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

givesomefucks, rok temu

Pretty sure nothing changes for you.

Obviously in this case, no more updates. If there’s a server, it’s getting shut down. And no new players will buy it. So player count will decrease until it’s a dead game, even if multiplayer is peer to peer. But I doubt that’s the case.

givesomefucks, rok temu

Why does the Geo Metro exist when everyone could just drive Ferraris?

If controllers arent replaceable, you’re going to make them more durable, which raises price.

It’s a trade off

givesomefucks, rok temu

With non replaceable controller…

Like, there’s lots of different components. The cheaper overall may have better parts in a few specific areas, because if it breaks, the whole thing is broken.

givesomefucks, rok temu

Jack Black as claptrap might be good, but who cast Kevin Hart as Roland?

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I always thought of our universes as just a bubble, with dark matter all around us. It’s not the edge of the existence as much as the edge of our bubble.

We might not be the only bubble, but it’s impossible to interact or even observe them. Could be millions, could just be us. No way to every know.

Our bubble keeps expanding, until the edges aren’t dense enough to displace whatever’s out there. And we’ll either slowly fade and future civilizations will assume the universe has always shrunk. Because that’s all they’ve ever seen. Like if the human lifespan was a single minute, people would freak out everytime it approaches dawn or dusk. Not understanding that it’s a cycle.

It’s all about timescale.

givesomefucks, rok temu

NFS is pretty good.

Multiplayer sucks, but the single player is good. You can erase your save data to start a new one, it’s weird there’s no “new game” option to make it simpler tho.

I got it cheap on sale and have run thru the solo missions 2-4 times.

It’s pretty shallow, so there’s not much to do after the missions.

givesomefucks, rok temu

Devs abandoned it, players won’t

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The best thing about steam is you can buy keys from other sites, or even add incompatible games so they still showed up in your library.

PSN won’t even show you the current price for a game you own because it would encourage users to wait for a slae.

givesomefucks, rok temu

It’s getting better.

I got a PS5 as my first console in over a decade and most new PS5 games have the options you listed

There’s still older ones tho where theres literally just a single toggle or not even that.

givesomefucks, rok temu

Weird West is a good but simplictic ARPG.

Some people really don’t like the controlls tho, but there are options to switch it up.

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It’s insane it wasn’t there to begin with.

There’s just way too much junk games that are just there for people to grind trophies

givesomefucks, rok temu

What?

Insider trading is the trading of a public company’s stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading

givesomefucks, rok temu

CEOs have to schedule their sales many months ahead of time

As opposed to stuff like this, where they came up with it yesterday afternoon, right?

If they planned this change and the sale both months ago, what does it change? They scheduled the sale days before the change was answered.

What’s hard to understand here?

givesomefucks, rok temu

It’s a way to make the game look better…

And a bad sign that a modder cranked one out immediately but the game couldn’t do it before release

givesomefucks, rok temu

Too bad lootboxes are banned in a lot of countries so you couldn’t make a closer analogy…

givesomefucks, rok temu

This is like saying meteorologists who predict the rain cause it…

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Even for someone with a username made out of emojis…

Come on man, you can’t be that stupid

Edit:

Nevermind, saw that post history. That’s what I get for being an optimist